In May 2007, American Front members were among the crowd of about 55 people who attended the David Lane Memorial Rally in front of the Los Angeles Federal Building. David Lane, who died that same month in a federal prison in Indiana, was a member of The Order (also known as the Bruder Schweigen or the Silent Brotherhood), a white supremacist terrorist group that carried out armed robberies, murders and other crimes during the 1980s, including the June 1984 assassination of Alan Berg, a Jewish talk radio host, in Denver. The Order also carried out armored car heists that netted millions of dollars, which the group reportedly funneled to various white supremacist organizations. Most of its members are now serving lengthy prison sentences.
In addition to the memorial rally for David Lane, American Front members have staged and participated in numerous events with other skinhead groups. In 2007, David Lynch, American Front’s leader, attended a birthday party for a California-based skinhead. Other attendees included members of the Golden State Skinheads (GSS) and the Confederation of Racialist Working Class Skinheads (CRW), two California-based groups.
In the summer of 2006, Lynch cooperated with the now-defunct neo-Nazi group National Vanguard in holding anti-immigration protests at a Home Depot in Roseville, California. Later that year, in December, he organized a “Free the Order” rally outside a federal building in Los Angeles, in collaboration with racist skinhead groups and other white supremacists. In March 2005, American Front joined the neo-Nazi group Volksfront and racist skinhead groups, including the Golden State Skins and the Hangtown Bootboys, for an anti-gay protest at the El Dorado County Courthouse in Placerville, California. That same year, along with the Northwestern Hammerskins, another racist skinhead group, Lynch helped lead a vigil on Whidbey Island, Washington, on the 20th anniversary of the death of Robert Mathews. Matthews, who was the leader of The Order, was killed in a shootout with police on Whidbey Island in 1985. Tom Metzger, a notorious white supremacist who once headed White Aryan Resistance and now runs a Website and online publication called “The Insurgent,” also appeared at the event.
American Front has also been somewhat active in the white power music scene. In 2005, several members based in Sacramento even formed a white power band, Stormtroop 16 (the 16 being a reference to American Front with 1 signifying the first letter of the alphabet, A, and 6 signifying the sixth letter, F).
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